#armand richelieu

[enigma-the-mysterious]

Richelieu, about the Inseparables: The human body has 7 trillion nerves and some people manage to get on every single one of them

[procopiamiscanthus]

my senseless scrawl chibis icons for my dead boys:

[nikafandrawing]

Emothions of alternative-story Richelieu, from my comic book :)

[colepaldi-in-the-tardis]

New Richelieu / Milady de Winter fic is up.

Highly E Rated, Smut with Plot.

After the poisening and attack on his life, Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter find themselve about to tumble into an affair which every sane person would call impossible. But is it really?

Begins with S1E7. Will follow the canon loosely.

Please read the author notes.

Enjoy and have fun.

CPitT

[twelveisagoodone]

[amypihcs]

Little silly university-sketches dump

So my good friend @louieclamlent adviced me several times to publish the little sketches i make when i'm bored in university or just inspired.

It's mainly Holmes and Watson sketches, as those two live rent free in my head and i made these sketches during my Hygien lessons this semester since i already passed that exam. There will be my notes on the side and yep, they're very colorful, my friends call them 'the gay pride notes'

We were talking of the necessity or not of screening tests and of over diagnosis, which is an actual problem but GOD, he treated it in such an infuriating way.

While he talked quite well of trials and levels of research

Ans this one was made for my GF, @mostvaliantandmostpround, and also because my love for this man is quite endless.

Now to the other professor! This one was very very nice

As our Watson says, we really dealt a strong hit to infective illnesses!

And only the parassite (fungi, bacteria, virus, parasite) isn't all that's needed to get the illness. Mind your stress levels, guys, and take care!

AAAAND Holmes shouldn't dive into contaminated water!

When they're alone, he's the one to wash the dishes, as he knows disinfecting methods very well, it's like cleaning chemistry's glasswere.

Vaxes, of course!

And there's no art in vaxes, as Holmes would say

But air pollution is BAD for you. Tobacco too!

listen to your husband and your brother, please, holmes. Smoke and fumes are BAD for you!

Climate change is ALSO bad

Happy, retired, bickering on who left chemistry supplies near the food, as they could contaminate it

And Holmes WON'T buy that dress!

[severias]

Today is 4th of December which means it's the day my beloved favourite historical figure died, actually it's now been exactly 380 years from his death

If you didn't guess it's Cardinal Richelieu, oo what a surprise, Armand Jean Du Plessis, Duke of Richelieu, Éminence Rouge

In loving memory ig? Ignore how I speak of him like I personally knew him (maybe I did, you'll never know)

[frc-ambaradan]

More great art by maestro Paolo Mottura (from his facebook page), this time it's The Three Musketeers!!!

Scrooge as Cardinal Richelieu is 👌👌

[widevibratobitch]

Richelieu was hot but plz elaborate. :3 Why?

1. obsessed with cats. literally the hottest thing.

2. his general girlboss attitude. he was THE bad bitch of France 💅 that's v hot if you ask me

3. i mean look at him. daddy. certified babygirl. dude would do numbers on tumblr (*DOES! in the more sophisticated circles at least 😌)

4. huge fan of this guy's nose. he had the hottest nose shape ever. just looking at it makes me horny. i would kill to have his nose. it's beautiful.

final verdict: 1000000/10 hot af great material for the next tumblr sexyman!

[enigma-the-mysterious]

Richelieu: I’m very generous. Remember that time I gave blood?

Treville: Whose blood?

Richelieu: Eh, some guy’s

[procopiamiscanthus]

Cardinal Richelieu's eyes

[nikafandrawing]

Lil stickers

[eyes-of-the-fox]

Help.

[colepaldi-in-the-tardis]

Did I just design a Cardinal Richelieu Theme Bike jersey and going to get it printed?! Abso-fucking-lutely!

[louiseofsavoy]

‘ Ibrahim. Ibrahim of Parga. Ibrahim, my sworn enemy. You departed from this life; you went to the other side. I hope you somehow hear me. I’d like to tell you these when you were alive while looking into your eyes. It wasn’t meant to be. I owe my thanks to you, Ibrahim. I lived a life that nobody can live. Your share is big, I won’t deny it. You chose me. You offered me to His Majesty. Even if you regretted it a thousand times, it is the truth. In fact, you and I were two fans around the fire. The fire is Sultan Suleyman himself. I stopped. I knew my place. But you didn’t, Ibrahim. You got closer and closer. You circled and burnt as you circled. You burnt to ashes. Souls are immortal, I know. I will have to face unsettled accounts sooner or later. Then we’ll meet again, Ibrahim. ’

—  Magnificent Century,  Hürrem Sultan, ep. 134

Richelieu seemed to have experienced some emotion. He wrote to Chavigny: ‘ I beg God with all my heart that he has given eternal rest to the Queen’s soul. I am happy to have seen by letters that she has a great repentance for her faults and that she has forgiven with a great heart those whom she held as her enemies. ’ The tragedy which had been played out between these two people had a disconcerting epilogue. Another letter from Richelieu to Chavigny reveals: ‘ Sieur Riolan (Marie de Medici’s doctor) writes to me that he is keeping the Queen’s parrot for me, which I once had the honour of giving her. I beg the King to see fit to make me the heir to this animal. ’

—  Philippe Erlanger, Richelieu: l’ambitieux, le révolutionnaire, le dictateur

𝒑𝒔𝒅 𝒃𝒚 © wintërowl && whogis

[histoireettralala]

The dangers of disgrace- Can you save the family patrimony ?

Royal favour was so actively cultivated because political credit opened the doors to the further accumulation of wealth and even those well beyond the comparatively narrow confines of the court received pensions or other marks of distinction which meant that disgrace could have serious financial consequences. By the seventeenth century, France was governed by the rule of law in as much that life and property were not subject to royal whim. Rather than justice being exercised by the monarch personally, authority was delegated to courts and other individuals or institutions even if it was always subject to evocation should the need arise. Shocking exceptions such as the assassinations of the Guise or of Concini on the orders of Henri III and Louis XIII respectively were, it is true, covered by the flimsiest of legal fig leaves, thereafter trials of one form or another had been held for many of those who had fallen into the profoundest disgrace. For all of their theoretical power, Bourbon kings saw themselves as absolute monarchs not tyrants or despots, and property or offices were rarely confiscated in the manner of Russian tsars or Ottoman sultans. Yet if this offered French elites some degree of security, disgrace could still leave the family patrimony highly vulnerable.

Both the duc de Montmorency in 1632 and the Grand Condé in 1653 were condemned for the crime of lese-majesty after taking up arms against the crown and the potential consequences for their family patrimonies were nothing short of catastrophic. Before his execution, the rebel duc was declared "deprived of all rank, honours, and offices, the duchy of Montmorency extinguished and reunited to our crown and all of his other estates, seigneuries, properties, and goods, confiscated in our name." Condé fared no better and he was deprived of his "honours and governorships" by a royal declaration of November 1652 and dispossessed of "all his houses, lands, and properties to the profit of the king" by an arrêt of the Parlement of Paris in March 1654. If such draconian sentences could be handed down to two of the most prestigious men in the kingdom, it is easy to imagine the potential vulnerability of those lower down the social hierarchy, and when faced by harsh public and legal condemnation saving the family fortune was no easy task.

Guilty of lese-majesty, and with Richelieu determined to make an example, Montmorency lost his head and any right to influence the future destination of his patrimony. Yet rather than bolster the royal domain, Louis XIII respected the wishes of the rebel's father, who before his own death had planned to divide his inheritance amongst his three daughters should his son die without heir. By this route, a substantial portion of the vast Montmorency inheritance had passed to the Bourbon-Condé via Charlotte-Marguerite de Montmorency, wife of the prince de Condé. It was their son, the great military captain, who had by his own treason during the Fronde endangered that inheritance and much else besides. Moreover, unlike the duc in 1632, he had not expiated his crimes on the block and was instead fighting in Spanish service against Louis XIV's armies in Flanders while his brother, Conti, and most of his relatives and clients were suspect having participated in one way or another in his revolt. There was, therefore, a genuine danger that the family patrimony would be broken up or lost.

The House of Bourbon-Condé rose to the challenge. The task of safeguarding the family fortune was rendered possible in large measure because the judgement confiscating Condé's possessions was issued in absentia and despite its draconian terms it left the door "open for repentance" and allowed five years for an appeal to be lodged. That delay bought valuable time, even if the presence of the notoriously avaricious Mazarin waiting in the wings was a warning that it might not be enough. In response, the princely House and its entourage was mobilized and it promptly began to squirrel away jewels, furniture, works of art, and other valuables, literally stripping châteaux and hôtels and hiding anything of value away from the prying eyes of its enemies. Legal manoeuvres allowed the family to open up another front as almost everyone from the prince de Conti to household servants took the opportunity to make a legal claim against the absent Condé's estate. Having made his peace with the cardinal, Conti cemented his new found favour by marrying Marie-Anne Martinozzi, one of Mazarin's nieces. While hardly a prestigious match, the political advantages were all too tangible as he could now stake a claim to the offices and titles forfeited by his brother. By these and other means, the Condé fortune was saved from rapine and when, in 1660, the prince was permitted to re-enter the kingdom disaster had been averted. His rehabilitation, which had been negotiated as part of the Peace of the Pyrénées concluding the long war with Spain, was a rare example of political disgrace being ended by diplomatic treaty. It would, however, take several years before the damage to Condé's political and financial credit had been repaired, and he was once more trusted to serve at the head of Louis XIV's armies.

Julian Swann- Exile, Inprisonment or Death- The Politics of Disgrace in Bourbon France